312 BIRDS OF THE NEW YORK CITY REGION 



migration, all individuals seen or recorded having been males. 

 There is also one fall record. It has occurred far too often 

 in the northeast in recent years to be regarded as accidental. 

 The fact that it has occurred three times in twelve years in 

 Central Park is not without significance, though it is also a 

 testimony to the excellence of this locality, for Warblers an 

 oasis in a vast desert of city roofs. The Prothonotary 

 Warbler may be roughly described as glowing orange, with 

 ashy wings and no wing bars. Beginners in Central Park see 

 it quite frequently, but needless to say the Blue-winged 

 Warbler and the Yellow Warbler divide the honors fairly 

 between them. Neither is orange, the Yellow Warbler's 

 wings are not ashy, the Blue-winged has wing-bars, and both 

 are smaller, with shorter and more slender bills. Finally the 

 Prothonotary has a loud call-note like a Water-Thrush, and a 

 loud, penetrating song, a tweet, tweet, tweet, tweet, all on one key. 



Long Island. Specimens taken at Jamaica in May 1849 and at 

 Montauk Point, August 26, 1886. This last capture was recorded by 

 Butcher in April, 1888, and was alluded to again by him in 1895 

 when he recorded the Jamaica specimen. Somewhat ambiguously, 

 however, he mentioned the date of publication of the record and 

 not the date of capture. As a result Eaton believed that a third 

 specimen had been taken in April, 1888, which is erroneous. More 

 recently Miss Mary W. Peckham has reported seeing one on May 

 6, 1916 at Forest Park, Brooklyn. 



New York State. 



CENTRAL PARK. A male in full song was discovered on the 

 " Point" in the Ramble, May 3, 1908 (Anne A. Crolius and 

 Griscom). It remained until May 10, and was seen by dozens 

 of observers. Day after day one could enter the Ramble and 

 locate the bird by a ring of admiring students, before whom 

 it would sing and display without any signs of shyness. The 

 general atmosphere of excitement was so infectious that I be- 

 lieve a dozen people began to study birds, thanks to this 

 Warbler. Another male was observed April 30, 1916 (Hix). 

 On May 2, 1919 two boy scouts rushed into the Bird Depart- 

 ment shouting that there was a Prothonotary Warbler in the 

 Ramble. W. DeW. Miller, Gerald H. Thayer and the writer 



